Firefox crash

[Scott Pearson]

Julien Le Houérou wrote:

> I met this issue under FC2, since upgrade to FC3 firefox does not 
> crash anymore, anyway I encounter problems with java applets, I just 
> can't type any text in text boxes, and most of time text in option 
> lists does not display either... is it due to j2re and mozilla-j2re 
> versions? I think they're 1.5.
>
> Rodrigo wrote:
>
>> Sometimes Firefox crashes without any messages or log, and it is a very
>> annoying problem. Does anyone have this problem? I have read that it
>> could be a problem of X.org or Official Nvidia Driver, but I has not
>> find any solution.
>>
>> My specs: Geforce 6600GT AGB, pentium IV, 1024 MB Ram, Fedora Core 3,
>> Firefox 1.0.2  
>>
>>> Name        : firefox                      Relocations: (not 
>>> relocatable)
>>> Version     : 1.0.2                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
>>> Release     : 1.3.1
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Bye.
>>  
>>
>
I think it actually has more to do with how Mozilla handles programming 
of Java applets when the websites use different versions of Java for 
their applets or use non-standard programming practices in their 
applets.  Mozilla should not be quitting suddenly with no message or 
log, that's a problem on Mozilla's side.  I think the rest is due to 
different versions of Java and/or poor programming practices on various 
websites.  The reason I say this is that my son has had problems with 
both J2RE 1.4.2 and 1.5 with FireFox, so it does not seem to be realted 
to the JRE, and I've had it happen with all versions of 1.5, but not 1.4.2

My guess is that changing JREs will help with specific websites, but 
then the problem will still show up again, just at different websties.  
Just a guess on my part, though.